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Two signatures on opposite sides of Europe have deepened the divide between East and West, as the European Union pulled Ukraine closer into its orbit and Russia formally annexed Crimea.
In this “new post-Cold War order”, as the Ukrainian prime minister called it, besieged Ukrainian troops on the Crimean Peninsula grappled with an existential choice - leave, join the Russian military or demobilise.
Ukraine was working on evacuating its outnumbered troops in Crimea, but some said they were still awaiting orders.
The chief of the UN came to Kiev and urged all sides to keep their tempers down.
The first UK prosecution for female genital mutilation will be brought against a doctor and a second man, prosecutors have said.
Dr Dhanoun Dharmasena, from the Whittington Hospital in London, and Hasan Mohamed, who is not a medic, are to face the first charges brought under the Female Genital Mutilation Act, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
It is alleged that the doctor carried out the procedure on a woman who had given birth in November 2012, and that Mohamed encouraged and helped him.
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